GhostWriter16
Deity
Why not do a "Throwback" IOT with a ruleset based on IOT III or IV (Sorry if this has already been suggested.)
The Death of IOT
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Mosher
Mushroom dad
There was an IOT with essentially IOTIV's ruleset - The Space Race - which has not proved tremendously popular.
Patriotic_Fool
The Mitt ©
Not if you're France and you can't get over 5 provinces. Can't take a little diplomacy?
There were 6 diplomacy offers from me. I didn't see any from ailedhoo's side
Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
TSR stands as a fetid testament to the root problem of spiritual decay.
Lighthearter
President of the United States
Thorvald, it's more that the game has evolved. It's not "Spiritual Decay" anymore than the fact I now think the writing I produced 2 years ago is crap is "Authorial Decay". We've moved on. It's an updated, evolving new community and game style, like my writing is just a new style, tighter, and better.
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Thorvald of Lym
A Little Sketchy
No, when you have two players dragging down the game to infractible depths over a border spat because the GM doesn't give a damn about decorum, I call it an empirical problem.
Patriotic_Fool
The Mitt ©
1 player.
I tried to find a solution where we both got some of the border. I also had a solution where only the UN gets the borders.
Oh well I tried.
I tried to find a solution where we both got some of the border. I also had a solution where only the UN gets the borders.
Oh well I tried.
Tani Coyote
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It's not so much I don't care about decorum, it's that nations do not always get along and I respect this fact.
As you'll remember, I also threatened to penalise both for any rude remarks made towards the other. Nations can bicker all they want; personal insults are NOT acceptable.
As you'll remember, I also threatened to penalise both for any rude remarks made towards the other. Nations can bicker all they want; personal insults are NOT acceptable.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
OMYGOSH, LH's new avvy is the Spanish Republican flag rotated 90º!!! 
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Valk is not going to update until the BS is finished.
Terrance888
Discord Reigns
Well sorry. If you call such discussion "BS" you might find yourself never updating simply because of human nature to argue about the fallacies of youth/younger generation while looking nostalgically towards their own. As well as the truly never ending debate about merging IOT and NESing communities, with supports and detractors both convinced they won the argument. (personally, individual level integration is good enough for me). Such discussions are GOOD for a community because it allows a second for the community to reflect and reconsider, and then for individuals to choose their own actions.
EDIT: This discussion has occured various times in various ways in the NESing community, either through private discussion about different rulesets, threads, chatrooms and elsewhere. And they still continue to pop up various times. It won't end. Once you become self-conscious, you are forever self-conscious. Enjoy it.
EDIT: This discussion has occured various times in various ways in the NESing community, either through private discussion about different rulesets, threads, chatrooms and elsewhere. And they still continue to pop up various times. It won't end. Once you become self-conscious, you are forever self-conscious. Enjoy it.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Cynical bluffs do not transport across the internet well. My fault, even though I posted something much more realistic and non cynical in another thread.
bestrfcplayer
Steppin' up!
This crisis has gone way to out of hand. It has led the IOT community to near civil war, something that we haven't seen since the schism. And even THAT did not lead the community to civil war. It seems that this has been the result of two separate camps: one camp representing the old order. The old days of IOT. Whilst the second camp is composed of those who wish for the current ways of IOT and leave the old ways behind. But, there are some who are even in a third, smaller camp, that does not wish for war.
This has been the closest in where we have seen the IOT split apart. There was talk of a possible civil war when the Forum of IOT was created. However, that crisis has since died out. As a semi-veteran of IOT, I say we create games that combine BOTH the old and new ways to avoid total civil war.
This has been the closest in where we have seen the IOT split apart. There was talk of a possible civil war when the Forum of IOT was created. However, that crisis has since died out. As a semi-veteran of IOT, I say we create games that combine BOTH the old and new ways to avoid total civil war.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
I love both the old and new ways, nor do I want a civil war, I would just like GM freedom over his own game, this has been blown out of proportion, but I would also like to see some more activity and innovation in IOT. As soon as I get the time, I will update valk and I will also start a new style of IOT, the simple yet new one. The problem is that people looking at the old ways tend to just plagiarize and copy it. IOT deserves to die when it becomes just another stale copy of another game, every change is welcome, the map, the rules....just dont turn this into a boring claim X invest X game. New Ideas with Old Styles, a natural blend.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Civil War? You ain't talking of this General Strike claim among GMs, are you? Because apart of that, which is completely unrelated to the topic of this thread, I can't think of what else would you call "Civil War"...
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Beat me too it. Best doesn't have an idea of what he is talking about. And this is the wrong thread for that discussion.
Patriotic_Fool
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TBH there is no Civil War. I would no this because I am widely regarded as one of the "ring leaders" of the other faction. But this civil war doesn't exist, I actually agree with the other side in some respects, but I believe that they way they handled the situation was incorrect.
Patriotic_Fool
The Mitt ©
We don't have a ring leader. Maybe BJ, but we're not advocating for anything new, just the status quo.
I don't want to see this mostly decent community, as ripe and fresh as an apple, become tainted and spoiled due to a few protesting maggots.
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